Tag: Vanderbilt Commodores

ESPN color commentator Jordan Rodgers offered a comment on the telecast of Tuesday's Cactus Bowl between Kansas State and UCLA that was both fundamentally flawed, and of growing prevalence among certain circles of college football media and fan bases: "Success in college football is making the College Football Playoff...Every move should be a step in…

It's time for another edition of the Third Phase. It's a column for the punting enthusiasts. This also assumes you're a punting enthusiast, in which case WELCOME! You can find previous columns here. At long last, another college football week has come and gone. And it seems like there is always some sort of punt…

College football isn't and will never be the NFL -- and thank the Gridiron Gods for that. Amateurs -- even if they're the best fraction-of-a-percent of amateurs -- still are not professionals. College football is played, primarily, by 18-to-23-year-olds who are more prone to mistakes than their professional counterparts. It's for this reason a Saturday…

Week 3 is the last of this college football that falls before...well, fall. Autumn equinox is next Friday, which means we're just about fully settled into football season. The beginning of autumn coincides with the start of conference play, and for many teams around the nation, Week 3 is either the final or penultimate weekend…

The time is upon us: Opening Night 2016. College football is back! ...OK, college football's been back for a little less than a week now, with Cal-Hawaii and Charleston Southern-North Dakota State kicking off the season last weekend. But, for all intents and purposes, college football is REALLY back Thursday! Opening Night isn't as loaded…

Take one part Steve Taneyhill, one part C.T. of The Real World and The Challenge fame, add a pinch of the one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, and you get SEC Network's newest studio analyst, Jordan Rodgers. The former Vanderbilt quarterback and brother of Green Bay Packers star Aaron Rodgers parlayed his recent…

Haters will say CFB Huddle's Game Balls concept is a weak facsimile of other weekly rundown column elsewhere. Thanks to the Minnesota Golden Gophers, I've learned to brush it off. Enjoy the best of the week in college football. Haters Will Say These Kicks Are Faked Forget Dude Perfect: University of Minnesota specialists turned the…

The SEC East is bad. No compelling argument exists to counter the reality cruelly evident Saturday. FCS Playoff-bound The Citadel outplayed thoroughly outplayed South Carolina. There was nothing fluky in the Bulldogs' option offense rolling up 350 rushing yards en route to a 23-22 victory -- even if a penalty negated a would-be, fourth-down game-winning…

Happy Halloween and welcome to Week 9 of the college football season. To celebrate the intersection of my favorite sport with one of my favorite holidays, I employed the Silver Shamrock Company to manufacture one college football team's helmets. Alternate uniforms may be passe, but an alternate helmet that turns wearers' heads into snakes and…

Truly awful officiating marred Oklahoma State's otherwise thrilling, 30-27 win Saturday at Texas. The Longhorns were hit with 16 flags for 128 yards, some of which came at crucial junctures in the hotly contested conference opener for both teams. A defensive holding call against Poona Ford -- on a run play, of all things --…

'Tis the season, my friends. The eager anticipation is almost at a conclusion with opening night of the 2015 FBS football season almost upon us. The 2015 campaign opened with a bang last Saturday, as Montana scored a touchdown in the final seconds to upend four-time defending national champion North Dakota State. The Championship Subdivision…

In Ohio State's three-man quarterback race, each Buckeye has played a unique role. Cardale Jones, the breakout star of the College Football Playoff, is the brash and exuberant one, soaking in the limelight with (late) April Fools jokes and high-profile Twitter beefs. Braxton Miller is the veteran whose unfortunate injury had him seemingly destined to…